This weekend: Re-Occupy?
I'm still waiting for my mask to give me "The Mask"-like powers. Occupy Philly is in the middle of the first week of what you might call a Spring offensive. After a slow but visual winter (they had a few events here and there), Occupy Philly got things kicked off yesterday with a Dr. Seuss skit in front of Wells Fargo bank. Today and this weekend,...
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Attn. Philly Students: Voter ID? There’s an App For That
A group called the Cost of Freedom has launched a Smart phone campaign to help people in Voter ID states figure out just what they’ll need to practice their Constitutional right to vote. And students who want to vote in Pennsylvania with your student ID? There are certain requirements of that ID, as per the legislation. So read on. As we’ve documented here,...
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DAILY GRINDER: George W. Bush Coming to Philly Burbs for Primary
I come out when no one's looking. The primary is coming April 24. And so is George W. Bush. He’s coming to Bucks County. Seriously. That day. Hide your children because remember that guy? Larry Mendte does not like when you refer to him as an “email aficionado.” Need proof? Check out this path of destruction he posted to Philadelphia Magazine’s...
Continue ReadingPhilly Foreclosure Maintenance Differs By Neighborhood Racial Makeup
The National Fair Housing Alliance released a new report yesterday, detailing banks’ maintenance of 1,000 foreclosed homes in nine metro areas across the country—including Philadelphia (h/t Keystone POLITICS). What they found was…was it surprising? Probably not, but here it is: “Properties in predominately black and Latino neighborhoods were far more...
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Committee of 70 Holding Training Sessions for Voter ID Education
The Committee of Seventy notes its Voter ID coalition will be sending “trained non-partisan volunteers to every city polling place to talk to voters about the Voter ID law” during the April 24 primary, during which time you do not necessarily need ID, but you will be asked for it and told to bring one in November. They’ll be holding training sessions for...
Continue ReadingRachel Maddow Loves Her Some Philadelphia Weekly
Philadelphia Weekly’s politics blog (this one) got a shout out on the Rachel Maddow Show the other night with regard to a blog we wrote about a pro-Rick Santorum, anti-gay robocall produced by a group called “Jews and Christians Together.” The crank yanker, used in the Ohio primary on March 6, was used again Tuesday night in Wisconsin. The audio invites...
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DAILY GRINDER: ESPN Alleges Gov. Corbett Had JoePa Fired
Next time: Just get me season tickets. ESPN’s Outside the Lines has a story out which alleges Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett ordered the firing of Joe Paterno from Penn State, and, as many would believe, by extension, killed him? (Your Facebook friend: BLESS JOEPAS HEART, HE NEEDED WORK TO LIVE!) The piece reads: “And the governor said, ‘I told...
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Nutter Says Tainted Spinach Gets More Attention than Black Violence
Mayor Michael Nutter was in Washington DC yesterday to speak at the Youth Violence Prevention Forum. While there, he noted that black-on-black violence gets less attention in the national media than tainted spinach, and called for a “national investigation” into the trend. He called black youth violence “a disease… It’s a rash, and if there were a rash...
Continue ReadingPhilly Courts: Judicial Hellhole or Best in the Country?
Earlier this year, the Washington D.C.-based Americans for Tort Reform released its annual ‘Judicial Hellholes’ report and, wouldn’t you know it, they ranked Philadelphia’s court system the worst in the entire country. Their main concerns with the city’s courts were what they called “forum shopping for plaintiff-friendly courts” and our “Plaintiff-friendly...
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